Review continued.

Now through Dec. 2009--these posts had very little to do with "times" or "frequency" and instead dealt with the Q whether the ossification/mineralization process could be influenced by exercise or mechanical strain.

One study: unable to find an osteocyte (calcium building) response to strain.

However, there is, in response to strain:

Cell deformation--substrate stretching. i.e. what I've termed temporary contraction of the actual mineral matrix of individual bone cells (molecules,fibrils).

In these posts we start to bull dog what I'm increasingly considering the most important factor in equine FR--arrangement. How does all the material fit together, and the effect of exercise on this.

Such terms from Max Planck as:

self arrangement (of collagen molecules, collagen fibrils, collagen arrays, HA mineral platelets both within and on the outer surface of, collagen fibrils.)

What affects FR? A summary:

constituents

orientation

shape

distribution

(size and arrangement pattern of HA crystals)

or, another way:

FR= Bone Quality + Bone Strength + Bone Mineral Density + Bone Fracture Toughness - Micro Damage.

And, my favorite post on this blog:

http://ratherrapid.blogspot.com/2009/12/please-avoid-meeting-above-alone-in.html

Training:

Thus far we have had a much drier fall. This is throwing out 3 weeks of the wettest Sept. in memory. Other than that, things since August 1 have been better than last year.